This text is copied from the TeXinfo manual for pcl-cvs.
Installation of the pcl-cvs program
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1. Edit the file `Makefile' to reflect the situation at your site.
The only things you have to change is the definition of `lispdir'
and `infodir'. The elisp files will be copied to `lispdir', and
the info file to `infodir'.
2. Configure pcl-cvs.el
There are a couple of paths that you have to check to make sure
that they match you system. They appear early in the file
pcl-cvs.el.
*NOTE:* If your system is running emacs 18.57 or earlier you
MUST uncomment the line that says:
(setq delete-exited-processes nil)
Setting `delete-exited-processes' to `nil' works around a bug in
emacs that causes it to dump core. The bug was fixed in emacs
18.58.
3. Release 1.05 and later of pcl-cvs requires parts of the Elib
library, version 0.07 or later. Elib is available via anonymous
ftp from prep.ai.mit.edu in `pub/gnu/elib-0.07.tar.z', and from
a lot of other sites that mirrors prep. Get Elib, and install
it, before proceeding.
4. Type `make install' in the source directory. This will
byte-compile all `.el' files and copy both the `.el' and the
`.elc' into the directory you specified in step 1.
If you don't want to install the `.el' files but only the `.elc'
files (the byte-compiled files), you can type ``make
install_elc'' instead of ``make install''.
If you only want to create the compiled elisp files, but don't
want to install them, you can type `make elcfiles' instead.
This is what happens if you only type `make' without parameters.
5. Edit the file `default.el' in your emacs lisp directory (usually
`/usr/gnu/emacs/lisp' or something similar) and enter the
contents of the file `pcl-cvs-startup.el' into it. It contains
a couple of `auto-load's that facilitates the use of pcl-cvs.
Installation of the on-line manual.
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1. Create the info file `pcl-cvs' from `pcl-cvs.texinfo' by typing
`make info'. If you don't have the program `makeinfo' you can
get it by anonymous ftp from e.g. `ftp.gnu.ai.mit.edu' as
`pub/gnu/texinfo-2.14.tar.Z' (there might be a newer version
there when you read this), or you could use the preformatted
info file `pcl-cvs.info' that is included in the distribution
(type `cp pcl-cvs.info pcl-cvs').
2. Move the info file `pcl-cvs' to your standard info directory.
This might be called something like `/usr/gnu/emacs/info'.
3. Edit the file `dir' in the info directory and enter one line to
contain a pointer to the info file `pcl-cvs'. The line can, for
instance, look like this:
* Pcl-cvs: (pcl-cvs). An Emacs front-end to CVS.
How to make typeset documentation from pcl-cvs.texinfo
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If you have TeX installed at your site, you can make a typeset
manual from `pcl-cvs.texinfo'.
1. Run TeX by typing ``make pcl-cvs.dvi''. You will not get the
indices unless you have the `texindex' program.
2. Convert the resulting device independent file `pcl-cvs.dvi' to a
form which your printer can output and print it. If you have a
postscript printer there is a program, `dvi2ps', which does.
There is also a program which comes together with TeX, `dvips',
which you can use.